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A History of Private Life, Volume IV, From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War (History of Private Life)
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by Phillippe Ariès, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, and Arthur Goldhammer
Sales Rank: 317388
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$28.00
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Cover Type: Paperback with 744 pages
Published by: Belknap Press March 21, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674400038
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674400030
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 1.6 inches
Weighs: 3 pounds
From Library Journal
These volumes, edited by Philippe Aries and Georges Duby, are aimed at both the scholar and layperson who wonder how people lived and behaved from ancient times to the present: "their thoughts, their feelings, their bodies, their attitudes, their habits and habitations, their codes, their marks, and their signs." The focus is on western European life, primarily French.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Review
The new emphasis on the history of everybody has now been consecrated in [this] ambitious five-volume seriesmasterfully translated by Arthur GoldhammerCopious illustrative materials--paintings, drawings, caricatures, and photographs, all cannily chosen and wittily captioned to display domestic lifeawesome.
--Roger Shattuck (New York Times Book Review )
The fourth volume of this brilliant series arrives with the poignance of a letter that through some fluke of the postal system has been delayed seventy or 100 years and is read by descendants of the original addresseeA whole century's cries and murmurs are here, reminding us that their echoes are with us still.
--Joseph Coates (Chicago Tribune )
Evocatively written, well translated and gorgeously illustrated.
--Richard Sennett (New York Newsday )
Spanning the period from the 11th century to the Renaissance and focusing on France and Tuscan Italy, this continues the projected five-volume history of private life from the Roman world to the present. 'Private' is here defined as what medieval people considered intimate, familial, domestic[The book] display[s] an astounding knowledge and use of sources and offer rich detail about everything from affection and sex to domestic arrangements and latrines. The many illustrations strongly support the text. Essential for both research and general collections.
--Bennett Hill (Library Journal )
What gives the volume its unity is not so much a rigorous definition of the subject, private life, as a consistency of concentration on a series of very interesting, interrelated themes: living space, and the degree of privacy that it can afford; family relationships, with special references to the nucleargroup that centers around a single married couple; relations between the sexes (both amorous and domestic); attitudes toward the body and nudity; the senseof individuality and self-perceptionThis volume offers a very full, richly variegated picture of the life, in different places and at different periods, of the Middle Ages. It has lavish and well-chosen illustrations to match the text. (New York Review of Books )
General readers as well as academic specialists will revel in the wealth of historical detail and insight offered here. Aries saw three basic forces contributing to the profound social changes of the early modern era: the rise of state power, the spread of literacy, and new forms of religious piety. Together, the essays address each of these realms from several angles, providing glimpses at everything from cook books to charivaris, love letters to lettres decachet. The pattern that emerges is the creation of a sphere of private life, thought, and feeling that was unknown in the Middle Ages. (Choice )
Reader Reviews
If you only read one volume of this five volume set, volume IV is the book I would recommend. The History of Private Life, vols. I-V, is concerned with the project of demonstrating private life in the west (read: France) from its Roman origins to the present day. Volume IV concerns itself with the 19th century. The 19th century, with the emergence of industrialization, democratic feeling and the bourgeois, is where modernity begins. It should come as no surprise that the 19th century is also where the modern conception of "private life" began as well. After reading volume IV, I was left wondering whether this set of five books might have read better as a set of three books: Volume one would contain Roman life, the middle ages and the renaissance/early modern period, volume two would be this book and volume three would be the twentieth century. Not to say that I found vol's I-III irrelevant. However, those volumes were more concerned with antecedents of "private" life and it is only in this volume that "private" life takes center stage. I noticed a shift in the style of writing in this volume. Whereas the previous three volumes were straight forward with only occasional prose that lurched into the familiar (and oft incomprehensible) style of the "theorists of social control"(Foucalt, etc). This volume sometimes descends into the circular logic and incomprehensible theory of that school. None the less, this is the one book of the five that I would most recommend.
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